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Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget?

The common experience of arriving somewhere only to realise you've forgotten what you went there to do is called the "doorway effect."

According to theories, the forgetfulness is due to our not spending long enough encoding in our memory the intended purpose for going to the room.

But new experiments from a team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame now suggest a completely different reason something called “the doorway effect.” It appears that the act of going through a door the change in the scene may be behind the forgetfulness.